The Atlas Institute

(My favorite faction in the whole verse tbh)
The Atlas Institute, sometimes abbreviated as Atlas and also known as the Titan's Pit, is one of the three major branches of the Mage's Association specialized in Alchemy. This organization is named after the Atlas Mountains (Big Morocco W)


Crest of the Titan's Pit, showing one's affiliation to Atlas

The magi in Atlas are expert Alchemists, an assembly of geniuses. For them, there are no taboos and no penalties to prevent the creation of the most unethical of weapons. Their only one rule is that things which are created here must never leave. That is the founding principle of the Atlas Temple. They fear people leaving more than they care about visitors. They are rare to act directly, and see other Magi organizations as foolish for taking actions that may lead to the extinction of mankind they are so dedicated to preventing. Unlike the Clock Tower, they have no interest in reaching the Root, with their research being entirely dedicated to preventing the doomsday scenarios they predict.

The often spoke-up "transformation of base metal to gold" in Alchemy is, to the members of the Atlas Temple, mere "transformation of matter" and is nothing more than a primitive art far removed from their ideals. Most of them cannot perform Magecraft of great power due to the lack of Magic Circuits.

« We have no need to be the strongest. We create that which is the strongest. »
This is a central dogma of the Atlas Temple’s alchemists.

Contracts of Atlas

The Contracts of Atlas are seven contracts issued as of the founding of Atlas. They leave Atlas bound to cooperation with those in possession of one of the contracts at their demand. The recovery of these contracts is a goal of Atlas. As of the year 2000, four contracts had been recovered, but the locations of the *remaining three were unknown*.

Inventions

The process the Alchemists of Atlas use to study Mysteries does not depend on Magical Energy. Instead, they relied on a great many tools. Atlas' development was similar to the progress of science and technology.

Following this principle, Atlas has birthed a great arsenal of weapons. In order to avoid the "end" proven by their first director, they endlessly create and dispose of weapon after weapon. The reason being that the weapons created there to save the world are ultimately nothing more than tools that will further its destruction.

The Seven Superweapons of Atlas are seven weapons on display at Atlas. Each Superweapon was created to save humanity, but also has the potential to destroy it. There is a saying in the Prague Association (A smaller alchemist group of the mages association): "Lift not the seal of Atlas, lest ye destroy the world seven times over."

The TRI-HERMES: The Pseudo-Spiritronic Processor are Atlas Temple’s greatest storage media, in the form of obelisks. All events are recorded in TRI-HERMES, it is a supercomputer completed using Spiritons (magic soul particle wumbo jumbo. Im not explaining this, you don't need it. thx).

Headquarters

Called The Atlas Temple, It is located somewhere among the mountains of Egypt. It is an underground academy full of Mysteries. The Alchemists each have their own independent Workshops, within which they conduct their research. Laboratories built with unknown technologies.

There are storehouse for Mystic Codes, though they are considered to be no more than a junkyard. The Atlas Alchemists invented many devices, deemed them failures, and dumped them into a terrifying mountain of weapons.

In the center of the academy, it is where TRI-HERMES is located. The core of Atlas has a man-made sky in this underground chamber.


TRI-HERMES and the core of Atlas

Anyone who studied magecraft knows this, whether from the Mage's Association, the church, or a standalone guy.
Info known by higher positions or specific fields in The Mage's Association.